Um Med School Gets Dean

Digest

August 24, 1995|Staff reports

After a national search, the University of Miami named one of its own on Wednesday as dean of the School of Medicine.

Dr. John Clarkson, chairman of ophthalmology and director of the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, will begin his new job on Nov. 1, succeeding Dr. Bernard Fogel, the dean for 14 years. Clarkson also will serve as senior vice president for medical affairs.

Clarkson, 52, said the medical school had started to respond to managed care by consolidating departments and instituting cooperative, cost-cutting efforts between the university's Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and Bascom Palmer Eye Institute.

The school also has formed its own medical group that will be marketed to managed care companies, and Bascom Palmer has just started an eye care network that extends as far north as Stuart, he said.

"I envision more programs and courses related to the practice of medicine under managed care," Clarkson said. "I anticipate we will be training more generalists and fewer specialists."

Originally from Grove City, Pa., Clarkson moved to West Palm Beach in 1954. He and his wife, Diana, have two grown children.